Das Internet hat durch seine Möglichkeiten der effizienteren Gestaltung von Informationsbereitstellungund Informationsübermittlung in vielen Bereichen Geschäftsprozesseverändert. Ein wichtiges Resultat ist die Verringerung der Losgröße bei Bestellungen.Dies verursacht sowohl eine...

Today it is widely recognized that service operations research lags behind its manufacturingcounterpart (Heineke and Davis, 2006; Ellram, Tate and Billington, 2007; Metters andMarucheck, 2007). As Chase (2004) poignantly noted, “80% of the United States’ economyis in services, but 80% of operations...

In manual order picking systems, order pickers walk or drive through a distribution warehouse in order to collect items which are requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to perform these operations efficiently, it is usually required that customer orders are combined into (more...

The stock level in industrial companies is frequently subject of critical discussions. Material managers tendtowards high stock levels to ensure delivery and operational readiness. In contrast, controllers demand lowerstock levels to minimize the costs of capital commitment. This decision...

Die Model Driven Architecture (MDA) ist ein Standard der Object Management Groupzur modellgetriebenen Software-Entwicklung (Object Management Group 2003). Hinterdem Ansatz verbirgt sich im Kern die Idee einer strikten Trennung von Spezifikation undImplementierung eines Systems. Modelle auf...

In this paper we first show that the gains achievable by integrating pricing and inventory control are usually small for classical demand functions. We then introduce reference price models and demonstrate that for this class of demand functions the benefits of integration with inventory control...